Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
"The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community."
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SOURCE: www.citizencorps.gov/cert/
"The basic idea is to use CERT to perform the large number of tasks needed in emergencies. This frees highly trained professional responders for more technical tasks. Much of CERT training concerns the Incident Command System and organization, so CERT members fit easily into larger command structures.
A team may self-activate (self-deploy) when their own neighborhood is affected by disaster. An effort is made to report their response status to the sponsoring agency. A self-activated team will size-up the loss in their neighborhood and begin performing the skills they have learned to minimize further loss of life, property, and environment. They will continue to respond safely until redirected or relieved by the sponsoring agency or professional responders on-scene.
Teams in neighborhoods not affected by disaster may be deployed or activated by the sponsoring agency. The sponsoring agency may communicate with neighborhood CERT leaders through an organic communication team. In some areas the communications may be by amateur radio, FRS, GMRS or MURS radio, dedicated telephone or fire-alarm networks. In other areas, relays of bicycle-equipped runners can effectively carry mail between the teams and the local emergency operations center."
CERT Team Member Roles
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recommends that the standard, ten-person team be comprised as follows:
▪ CERT Team Leader
▪ Safety Officer
▪ Fire Suppression Team (2 people)
▪ Search and Rescue Team (2 people)
▪ Medical Triage Team (2 people)
▪ Medical Treatment Team (2 people)
CERT Training
While state and local jurisdictions will implement training in the manner that best suits the community, the Citizen Corps CERT program has an established curriculum. Jurisdictions may augment the training, but are strongly encouraged to deliver the entire core content. The Citizen Corps CERT core curriculum for the basic course is composed of the following nine units (time is instructional hours):
▪ Unit 1: Disaster Preparedness (2.5 hrs)
▪ Unit 2: Fire Safety (2.5 hrs)
▪ Unit 3: Disaster Medical Operations part 1 (2.5 hrs)
▪ Unit 4: Disaster Medical Operations part 2 (2.5 hrs)
▪ Unit 5: Light Search and Rescue Operations (2.5 hrs)
▪ Unit 6: CERT Organization (1.5 hrs)
▪ Unit 7: Disaster Psychology (1 hr)
▪ Unit 8: Terrorism and CERT (2.5 hrs)
▪ Unit 9: Course Review and Disaster Simulation (2.5 hrs)
SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communit...
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